Repeal of Ordinance
No. 1 of 1884, s. 14, and substitution
of new section.
Insertion
of new
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(2) Section 13 (4) of the Medical Registration Ordi- nance, 1884, is repealed, and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-
(4) Every person applying for registration under section 12 shall furnish to the Medical Board an address within the Colony at which all notices from the Medical Board may be served on him. Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall be served on the applicant at the address so furnished.
7. Section 14 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :---
Power of
Medical
Board to
censure or
14.-(1) If any registered practitioner is convicted of any offence or after due inquiry is considered by the Medical Board to have strike off the been guilty of infamous condnet in any register. professional respect, the Medical Board may either censure the said registered practitioner or direct that his name be struck off the register.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Medical Board to publish the result of any inquiry held under this section either with or without an acccamt of the proceedings at the said inquiry.
(3) The Medical Board may also after due inquiry direct the name of any person to be struck off the register who, in their opinion-
(a) has obtained registration by fraud or
misrepresentation; or
() was not at the time of registration,
entitled to be registered,
(4) Reasonable notice of any proposed in- quiry under this section shall be served on the person concerned.
(5) Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall in all cases under this section be served on the person concerned.
(6) The striking off the register under this section or the publication under sub-section (2) shall not take place until after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the service of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned and in the case of appeal sball await the decision of the Governor in Council,
8. The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is amended by the insertion of the following section imme- section 15 in diately after section 14 thereof :-
Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 1 of 1881,
8. 17.
Repeal of Ordinance
Service of notices.
15. Any notice directed to be served ou any person under the provisions of this Ordi-. nance shall, if such notice shall have been posted by registered post to his address given in the register, or, if such person be not regis- tered, then to the address furnished by him to the Medical Board, be deemed to have been served on such person at the time of posting,
9. Section 17 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is amended by the substitution of the words “ One thousand dollars and imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months" for the words "one hundred dollars" in the last line thereof.
10. Section 18 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, No. 1 of 1884, 1884, is bereby repealed and the following is substituted
s. 18, and
substitution
of new
section.
therefor :-
Appeal.
18. A right of appeal from any decision of the Medical Board under this Ordinance shall
lie to the Governor in Council. Such appeal shall be by means of a written petition. Such petition shall be presented within fourteen days
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